Music
The Skinny magazine music guide. We bring you the latest music highlights, gig reviews and previews, music videos, album reviews and features. Find exclusive interviews with local bands and international stars, bespoke playlists and video premieres.
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Live MusicThe Pogues @ Manchester Apollo, 13 Dec
The Pogues series of annual Christmas gigs continue to impress Read more »| 17 Dec 2009 -
Interviews
The Slew: Decks, Drums and Rock & Roll
Kid Koala’s new project is a collaboration with DJ Dynomite D and Wolfmother's former rhythm section, fusing epically heavy classic rock and deft, original takes on scratch DJing. Here comes The Slew.+ Read more »| 16 Dec 2009 -
ReviewsFreeland - COPE ™ Remixed
Adam Freeland previously courted critical acclaim with COPE ™ (OK, so not in these pages - ed), managing to lure rock luminaries as disparate as Gerald... Read more »| 16 Dec 2009 -
Live MusicSick Kids Sunday 2 @ The GRV, 31 Jan
All-day charity event at The GRV featuring Alasdair Roberts, Sparrow and the Workshop, Eagleowl and Meursault. Read more »| 16 Dec 2009 -
Reviews
The Hussy's - Japanese Graffiti
Never since Bush have a British band seemed so in thrall to the sounds of American rock. If you can forgive that vexatious inverted comma that pops u... Read more »| 16 Dec 2009 -
Live Music
Depeche Mode @ SECC, 12 Dec
It's been a long time coming and – against all fads and health scares – a sold out Hall 4 marks a hero's return. Since last gracing the Playhouse... Read more »| 15 Dec 2009
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Reviews
Benjamin Shaw - I Got the Pox, the Pox is What I Got
In an age when digital technology has made pristine sound quality available to anyone with a decent laptop, going lo-fi has become a statement in itself: I'm... Read more »| 15 Dec 2009 -
ReviewsKrallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough
“True” black metal seems to exist in a vacuum, a self-referential singularity that praises tradition over novelty, sameness over innovation. On t... Read more »| 14 Dec 2009 -
Live Music
Malcolm Middleton @ Òran Mór, 10 Dec
The Òran Mór is laid out in seated rows like a Sunday service as tonight's preacher-in-residence, and one of Scotland's prime purveyors... Read more »| 14 Dec 2009 -
Live Music
Modest Mouse @ ABC, 10 Dec
Modest Mouse may enter to the sound of World War II air sirens whilst spotlights swoop the sold out ABC, but the precision deployment of their openin... Read more »| 14 Dec 2009 -
Live Music
The Mars Volta @ HMV Picture House, 9 Dec
Tonight’s two-hours of tantric prog makes their slot T in the Park this year seem like a desolatory cry-wank by comparison. Read more »| 11 Dec 2009 -
Live Music
Broadcast @ Stereo, 9 Dec
Currently operating as a two-piece, tonight Broadcast seriously up the ante in the visual stakes, Trish Keenan seemingly having just escaped from the Jonesto... Read more »| 11 Dec 2009 -
Reviews
Meursault - William Henry Miller Pt. 1 & 2
Meursault have had a good 2009: they’ve grown without losing lustre and garnered wide critical praise (including a place in our Scottish albums of the ... Read more »| 11 Dec 2009 -
Live Music
Deer Tick @ The Dulcimer, Manchester, 3 Dec
American pseudo-hillbillies turn suburbian Chorlton into the OK Coral Read more »| 10 Dec 2009 -
Interviews
When Vultures Circle
From the belly of the rock world's most anticipated meeting of minds since Dio danced with Sabbath, former Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones reveals the genesis, the chemistry and the future of Them Crooked Vultures. Read more »| 10 Dec 2009